Writing a plastic surgery blog that is anything less than a hysterically positive sales pitch machine is pretty uncommon as I see it. Moderating the comments at CosmeticSurgeryTruth.com should have clued me into this fact. Once your blog achieves a Google Page Rank of 3 or more, the spam starts flowing along after it. It would be nice if some of the spammers could write better English. Moderating illiterate spam is particularly annoying. The SPAM to which I am treated tends to be written on behalf of cosmetic surgery practices or outfits that seem to be able to spell their URLS correctly but very little else. These comments are rapidly tossed into the trash in my WordPress and then I move on with my day. Personal note: To get your comment approved it must have something to add to the post other than your link.
A Complimentary Comment – For Real?
Some of my blog comments however have been pretty unexpectedly surprising:
“Do you know that yours is the only blog that tries to present plastic surgery honestly? I did a Google blog search today and found so much &^@# spam that I nearly hurled! Most of what I found either made no sense or was a damn ad!”
A compliment? I nearly feel over. I did name my blog CosmeticSurgeryTruth.com, but I guess no one puts much stock in a name anymore. In past offices in which I worked as a plastic surgeon moderation was not always viewed so positively either. What is good for patients at times works at odds with practice economics. Suffice it to say telling a patient that surgery is not a good idea, loses a plastic surgery practice money. This is amongst the reasons I am in solo practice at present.
Back to our comment…. Figuring that this pleasant compliment wasn’t spam (as it didn’t have a URL associated with it,) I wondered. So I did a little surfing and lo and behold I found that the vast majority of plastic surgery blogs that I found were spam machines. It is funny that many of them feature the same poor English as the comments I referred to previously.
Google – Bad English Filter?
Maybe Google needs to write an algorithm to exclude poor English in blogs from its rankings. They might have more of a problem with weeding out the nonsense. Some of the competing plastic surgery blogs don’t make much sense either. I guess it is probably too much to expect from Google to employ some plastic surgeons to rank the importance of the plastic surgery information they link. How are they supposed to know marketing bull from the truth? Well they could just link my blog. That would solve everything in online plastic surgery…ROFL.